By Mitch Leslie Feb. 11, 2021 , 2:00 PM Maureen Marshall-Doss says the first sign that her vision was deteriorating came when she misidentified the color of a dress. At a backyard get-together about 20 years ago, the Indianapolis resident pointed out an attractive yellow dress another woman was wearing. “You see that as yellow?...
by University of Southern California The free high-resolution photo of writing, hand, number, line, measure, weight, fitness, measurement, close up, font, handwriting, organ, calligraphy, scales, shape, loss, emotion, pound, measuring, weight scale, weight loss, overweight. Credit: Pxhere With advances in analyzing human DNA, some well-studied populations have benefited from insights about how their health is affected...
MONASH UNIVERSITY Monash University researchers have uncovered the barrier to β-cell (beta cell) regeneration that could pave the way for improved treatments for diabetes and diseases that involve organ and tissue damage. The human body doesn’t repair itself very well, with our liver the only organ that can regenerate efficiently. We have limited capacity to regenerate new...
Heart disease deaths have declined among older people, but the trend is less encouraging among younger people, particularly women. Indeed, research suggests that heart disease and death rates from heart disease in these younger groups have remained unchanged or have even gone up slightly. To understand which factors put younger individuals at higher risk of premature coronary...
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN’S HOSPITAL BOSTON — While deaths related to heart disease have declined among older people, studies suggest that death rates among younger patients have remained stagnant or increased slightly. To understand what factors put younger individuals at higher risk of premature coronary heart disease (CHD), researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the...
January 20, 2021 8.32am EST Families can prioritize learning more healthy ways to eat. Joe Raedle/ Getty Images News The majority of Americans are stressed, sleep-deprived and overweight and suffer from largely preventable lifestyle diseases such as heart disease, cancer, stroke and diabetes. Being overweight or obese contributes to the 50% of adults who suffer high blood pressure, 10% with diabetes and additional 35%...
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM IMAGE: ANATH SHALEV CREDIT: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Use of the diabetes drug metformin — before a diagnosis of COVID-19 — is associated with a threefold decrease in mortality in COVID-19 patients with Type 2 diabetes, according to a racially diverse study at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Diabetes...
by eLife Credit: CC0 Public Domain Scientists have shown that adding an experimental cancer drug to a widely used diabetes treatment improves blood glucose control and weight loss in mice, according to a study published today in eLife. The results pave the way for clinical studies of the new drug combination as a more effective long-term treatment...
by Jim Fessenden, University of Massachusetts Medical School Stained tissue showing changes in blood vessels in fat tissue between nonpregnant and pregnant women. Credit: R. Rojas-Rodriguez et al., Science Translational Medicine (2020) Laboratory research and analysis of epidemiological data by Silvia Corvera, MD, and Tiffany Moore Simas, MD, MPH, MEd, and colleagues show that low levels...
by Brigham and Women’s Hospital Less than a decade ago, the Food and Drug Administration approved drugs for treating type 2 diabetes in an entirely new way. Since that time, evidence in favor of the use of sodium/glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors has been mounting, with studies showing better blood glucose control, cardiovascular benefits, weight loss...
